Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 21:09:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: best path from 4.3 to 4.5? Message-ID: <3CAA8E85.7000104@owt.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204021956010.39460-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Fernan Aguero wrote: > > >>I'm planning an upgrade from 4.3 (actually RELENG_4_3) to 4.5. >> >>I have the 4.5-install CD, though I've never made an upgrade using >>/stand/sysinstall. >>So my plan would be to cvsup and synchronize my sources and then >>remake the world and kernel. >> >>Now, is there any impediment in going directly from 4.3 to RELENG_4_5 >>or should I do RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE (or worse yet, 4.4) first and then >>go to RELENG_4_5? >> >> > I went from a 4.0-STABLE to 4.5-STABLE without any problems except > forgetting to delete the symbolic links from softupdates (which are > no longer needed) before I cvsupped. I think you can go pretty much > anywhere along the 4 branch without trouble if you follow the > instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. You might want to install the > new make.conf after you cvsup and edit it, but other than that, leave > upgrading of /etc until after installworld (then you can do it with > mergemaster). This isn't true since they upgraded sendmail. There are two users that have to be on your system for an installworld of recent versions of 4.5-stable for it to work. The users are smmsp and mailnull. There are a number of messages on this in -stable. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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